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href="https://followmeanddie.com/category/rpgs/" rel="category tag">RPGs</a></span> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/28/spontaneous-generation/" rel="bookmark">Spontaneous Generation</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-date"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/28/spontaneous-generation/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-02-28T22:04:39-05:00">February 28, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://followmeanddie.com/author/admin/" rel="author">admin</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/28/spontaneous-generation/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In the real world, the idea of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="spontaneous generation (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation" target="_blank">spontaneous generation</a>, where maggots and flies come from rotting meat was disproved and replaced by the actual method of like creatures spawning like creatures. That is called biogenesis. [Catch the companion podcast <a href="https://anchor.fm/follow-me-and-die/episodes/Episode-88---Thursday-Thoughts---Spontaneous-Generation-e3bcd4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="here (opens in a new tab)">here</a>.]</p> <p>However, in a fantasy world, spontaneous generation can be real.</p> <p>So normal creatures that die spawn maggots and flies.</p> <p>Monstrous and magical creatures would spawn something more fantastic.</p> <p>For example, if a dragon is slain, suppose the creatures spawned from it are carrion crawlers and purple worms.</p> <p>Not ever creature needs to do this, but once you have one creature do this, if the players make the connection, they will burn every dead body ever encountered. Perhaps some creatures only spontaneously generate from the ashes of their cremated bodies.</p> <p>Some creatures will have more rapid spontaneous generation than others. The more powerful a creature, the more rapid and impressive spontaneous generation could be.</p> <p>There are a couple of ways I see of handling this.</p> <p>One option is to specify a certain type of 2 or 3 creatures that are generated when a specific creature dies.</p> <p>The other option is to generate a table of the kinds of things that can be spontaneously generated. Perhpas there is only a chance of it happening, or the onset of the new creature is variable, etc.</p> <p>It occurs to me that this is one way a seemingly inaccessible dungeon manages to re-populate.</p> <p>Perhaps only certain creatures have this happen. </p> <p>I can imagine a table where after d6 minutes or hours the creature either dissolves into slime and sludge or blows away as ash in the wind or generates 1 to 3 random unrelated creatures. This limits the efficacy of collecting parts. Get them now or they won’t last long enough for you to come back.</p> <p>This is an idea to keep in the back of your mind for when weird things get mixed together. Like when the players mess with the experiments on the wizard’s workbench. Perhaps some horrid beast is created by messing with wizard’s experiments. It could be some “regular” monster, or some hideous creature created by the 1e DMG table for randomly generating creatures from the lower planes.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/osr/" rel="tag">OSR</a></span></footer></article> <article id="post-5969" class="post-5969 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-rpgs tag-osr"> <a class="post-thumbnail" href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/13/building-an-encouraging-and-supportive-community/" aria-hidden="true"> <img width="1038" height="576" src="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BuildingSupportiveEncouragingCommunity-1038x576.png" class="attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image" alt="Building Supportive & Encouraging Community" decoding="async" srcset="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BuildingSupportiveEncouragingCommunity-1038x576.png 1038w, https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BuildingSupportiveEncouragingCommunity-672x372.png 672w" sizes="(max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px" /> </a> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/category/rpgs/" rel="category tag">RPGs</a></span> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/13/building-an-encouraging-and-supportive-community/" rel="bookmark">Building An Encouraging And supportive Community</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-date"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/13/building-an-encouraging-and-supportive-community/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-02-13T20:35:42-05:00">February 13, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://followmeanddie.com/author/admin/" rel="author">admin</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/13/building-an-encouraging-and-supportive-community/#comments">8 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I have been honored by some of my Twitter followers for my positive presence there.</p> <p>On Twitter, I have been mentioned as one of the positive influences in the OSR, more than once in the last week.</p> <p>I know that I am not perfect, and fail far too often for my liking at being a good person. It is far easier to present your best side online: Don’t try to argue with people, or discount their opinions or experiences. </p> <p>I’ve tried to win arguments online, and one day a few years ago, realized it was a waste of effort. I might still write a rant about something to get it out of my system, but I rarely post them now. The things that bother me usually are not worth bothering other people about them. </p> <p>However, this week has been quite the eye opener to the TTRPG crowd. <strong>We can learn from this</strong>, someone who is a horrible person online is more likely to be a horrible person.</p> <p>We can’t stop people from being horrible. Their dysfunction, or whatever it is, can’t be cured with online discourse. Only someone with authority in their personal lives whom they truly respect has a shot at making that impact. Unfortunately, for some of these people, they are either their own echo chamber and masters of manipulation, or those who agree with their brand of nonsense flock to them forming an echo chamber.</p> <p>An echo chamber is a good thing when it reinforces positive traits and experiences. However, the negative version of that is often that people in those negative groups don’t see or hear the dissonance as they are on a different channel. Their twisted ideas of right and wrong and self-justification shield them from the rest of the world.</p> <p>My concern is how can we learn from this and keep those new to the online TTRPG experience safe from those who seek to cause trouble and outrage to promote their own agenda or products?</p> <p>I want to focus on the positive. Making a sign saying stay away from X on every social media page only serves the purposes of those who seek any publicity. They fully believe that any publicity is good publicity. <em> Please don’t feed the trolls.</em></p> <p>I’m not about making a blacklist and curating it, that never ends well as those always end up influenced and controlled by those with the wrong motivations. </p> <p>If we follow anyone online who is horrible to others, please unfollow them. Don’t mention or re-tweet their nonsense. Let their influence wain. Maintain a long memory so that in a few years they don’t make a sudden comeback sneaking in with a new crowd. This same problem exists among the charlatans and false prophets that are nearly all TV and radio preachers. Those that get exposed as frauds fall from sight, and in ten or fifteen years show up again. </p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Screenshot, Block, Report, and Ignore</h4> <p>Where physical safety and mental and emotional well-being permit, I recommend to screenshot and report those causing you grief online, then block, and ignore them. If they are the lowest level of jerks, this is usually enough. I blocked the most surly of the TTRPG people from all my socials a few months ago, and my feeds suddenly became brighter and more encouraging.</p> <p>Online interactions need to be efficient. It is better to block someone at the first sign of nonsense and re-think it based on the experience of others than to put up with nonsense. All online communities of TTRPG people should oust anyone who displays disrespect to others. Make it clear that such behavior is not tolerated. Allow X number of chances, but whatever line you set, stand firm and expel and block them when they cross it. </p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Help and Encourage</h4> <p>For the very few that will learn from their mistakes, help and encourage them in their efforts to change. Keep the reins in check, however, in case they are not genuine in their change of heart, or not resolute in their determination to change. </p> <p>Be the kind of person you want your online experience to be. If you want a fun and engaging online experience, be fun and engaging.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Modify Your Behaviors</h4> <p>I grew up with a strong sarcasm inherited from my father. I have struggled to keep it in check, as it is not always well received. A lot of my sarcasm is of the dissing or casting shade variety, and I find when I type it out, it doesn’t feel right, so I delete it before sending. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to let my mouth spew the stupid thoughts that springs to mind when face to face.</p> <p>I have said things that have caused fresh acquaintances to look at me with questioning looks. Those first impressions are hard to overcome. It is the same online. If we spew venom and so forth online, that will be the first impression others have of us.</p> <p>I try to be genuine to who I am and the way I am in real life, but I have found online, at least with a text based interaction, I more easily catch myself and say a lot less things that cause athlete’s esophagus.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Be Helpful</h4> <p>I like to help others, one reason I’ve had a tech support job for 21 years now. I was also a volunteer firefighter/EMT, and have mentioned a few times, was a pastor for ten years.</p> <p>I don’t always have something helpful to add to a conversation. I’ve seen some posts by people I follow online about personal tragedy or personal connection to recent events in the news. I want to say something to them, but my words are inane and pointless. Nothing I say can fix it. So I click the like or heart emoji, and maybe post a gif. </p> <p>As Thumper said, “If you can’t say sumthin’ nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.” </p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Honesty</h4> <p>Honest criticism of a game product should be proper criticism. That includes what you liked, and for what you didn’t how would you fix it or improve it? </p> <p>A hospital chaplain once told me, “The truth hurts, bullshit kills.” [I had to take a unit of chaplain studies long ago, and was on the oncology floor of a hospital two days a week. I chose the oncology ward to deal with my own issues involving disease, death, and dying.] </p> <p>At the same time, the truth does not need to be delivered in a cold and cruel or heartless manner. One can pick their words to speak the truth direct and true without being intentionally hurtful. For example, a victim of an online jerk deserves more careful phrasing than the online jerk. The jerk needs the most direct and concise explanation of what the issue is. If they are unteachable, block them.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Group Honesty</h4> <p>As a group, the TTRPG online community needs to be aware of the jerks who give TTRPGs a bad name. Publishers need to vet individuals and ensure their online presence is not that of jerk supreme before enshrining their names and ideas in various products. If someone is hurtful in one group, they must not be allowed to skulk around at the fringes of other groups. </p> <p>There are those who claim allegiance and even that they are leaders and authorities on what is and isn’t OSR. The do it yourself mentality of the OSR is, “Oh, Yeah? To heck with you! I’ll do it my way!” and we ignore the jerks. Unfortunately, our ignoring the jerks has led to much chaos and trouble for those we failed to warn or shield from the crap. This has led to the jerks being the “face” of the OSR to many. Which has led to the OSR being generalized as a bunch of jerks. </p> <p>I am part of the OSR, or consider myself as such. I found the OSR back in 2007 or 2008 when I started looking for game opportunities online. I started this blog in the summer of 2009. Unfortunately, I didn’t feel that I was able to do anything about the online jerks I encountered. I’m still not sure what I can do. <em>How do you rally others to a cause who are content to let it slide? </em></p> <p>They don’t want the hassle of dealing with things when they “poke the bear.” Other than anonymous reporting, how does one deal with such jerks? I’d have to unblock them and allow their nonsense into my life and wait for something worthy of reporting. [It should go without saying one should only report with evidence so that something is more likely to be done about them.] I really don’t want to do that, as I’ve got enough things in my life causing me stress. Some of the things I have mentioned online or on my podcast. </p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Input/Advice</h4> <p>What tried and true methods of dealing with online jerks actually works? I’m looking for proven methods to:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Reform their behavior.</li><li>Keep their nonsense from bothering others.</li><li>Prevent the like minded from drawing encouragement to do likewise.</li><li>Help those harmed by the jerks to prevent them leaving the hobby.</li><li>Making this hobby a warm and welcoming place to meet like minded people who want to play!</li></ul> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion</h4> <p>I grew up when it was normal for it to be hard to find other players. If not for Roll20, I would not get to play regularly. I try to be a positive influence on the games I am in, both as a player and GM. Excluding people from the table to me is so antithetical to the idea of RPGs that I just can’t comprehend it. </p> <p>Everyone who is a fan of TTRPGs should feel welcome to “pull up a chair at the table” and never have to worry about being judged or excluded as long as they are there to engage with the game and have fun. I invite you to help make that goal a reality.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/osr/" rel="tag">OSR</a></span></footer></article> <article id="post-5834" class="post-5834 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-rpgs tag-apps tag-blogging tag-tech"> <a class="post-thumbnail" href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/06/github-project-for-g-links-in-blogs/" aria-hidden="true"> <img width="1017" height="576" src="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GMitigationGitHubProject_Screenshot_2019-02-06_07-57-00-1017x576.png" class="attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image" alt="G+ Mitigation GitHub Project" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/category/rpgs/" rel="category tag">RPGs</a></span> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/06/github-project-for-g-links-in-blogs/" rel="bookmark">GitHub Project For G+ Links In Blogs</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-date"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/06/github-project-for-g-links-in-blogs/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-02-06T08:00:39-05:00">February 6, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://followmeanddie.com/author/admin/" rel="author">admin</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/06/github-project-for-g-links-in-blogs/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Bloggers who use <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Blogger (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.blogger.com" target="_blank">Blogger</a> were given <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="the biggest disappointment (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/02/google-spells-it-out-comments-posted-as.html" target="_blank">the biggest disappointment</a> yesterday when all the G+ comments for all Blogger blogs were deleted by Google. I have a blogger account, but it is just a link to my blog and lists each post from this blog. I never used blogger for my RPG blogging.</p> <p>Those of us who don’t use Blogger still have time to preserve our G+ comments.</p> <p>Thankfully, I only had two comments from G+, both from the same person. I used the <a href="https://archive.org/web/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)">Internet Archive</a> to make an archive of his G+ page. I then added a note at the end of the two articles involved:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>[<strong>EDIT:</strong> Google is deleting all G+ comments to non-blogger blogs. Below is one of two G+ comments on my blog I want to save. 02/06/2019]</p></blockquote> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>I then pasted in the comment,</li><li>The Date,</li><li>The Commenter’s name,</li><li>and the link to the G+ site.</li></ul> <p>I left the link text as the original G+ page, but I used the Internet Archive URL for the link. (See the <strong><a href="https://github.com/Lmh1/G-MitigationForBlogs/blob/master/InternetArchive.md">Internet Archive page</a></strong> in this repository.)</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">G+ Links</h4> <p>All bloggers, including those using Blogger, still have time to handle those G+ links that still exist on their blog posts.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Internet Archive</h4> <p>The <a href="https://archive.org/web/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)">Internet Archive</a>, AKA Wayback Machine, has a way to request that a public URL (link) be archived.</p> <code>https://web.archive.org/save/<URL></code> <p>Where the above link is modified where the link to archive is used in place of <URL></p> <p>For example, the G+ page for Follow Me, and Die! would look like this:</p> <p><strong>REQUEST LINK: </strong>(The following should be one line.)</p> <code> https://web.archive.org/<p>save/https://plus.google.com/+Followmeanddie</code> <p><strong>RESULTING LINK:</strong>(The following should be one line.)</p> <CODE>https://web.archive.org/web/20190206103057/<P>https://plus.google.com/+Followmeanddie</CODE> <p>Each time you use a request link, you get a new resulting link, that has the data and time as part of the URL. You do not need to generate a new request if the page has not changed since you last generated it.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">GitHub Project</h4> <p>I am by no means a master coder, but I know SQL, and I know how I want to handle the issues with my blog. I like to help others, so I am sharing my process and inviting anyone who wants to participate to step up. Anyone who is a better and faster scripter than I is welcome to build a script to do this. <strong>NOTE:</strong> I am looking for cross-platform solutions, i.e. a single solution that will work on any Operating System (OS)</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/Lmh1/G-MitigationForBlogs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Here you can find my minimal, in-progress project that I started this morning before work. (opens in a new tab)">Here you can find my minimal, in-progress project that I started this morning before work.</a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/apps/" rel="tag">Apps</a><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/blogging/" rel="tag">Blogging</a><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/tech/" rel="tag">Tech</a></span></footer></article> <article id="post-5816" class="post-5816 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-rpgs tag-apps tag-blogging tag-g tag-osr"> <a class="post-thumbnail" href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/04/good-luck-if-you-linked-to-anything-on-g/" aria-hidden="true"> <img width="1038" height="576" src="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GoodLuckIfYouLinkedToAnythingOnG-1038x576.png" class="attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image" alt="Good Luck If You Linked To Anything On G+" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GoodLuckIfYouLinkedToAnythingOnG-1038x576.png 1038w, https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GoodLuckIfYouLinkedToAnythingOnG-672x372.png 672w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px" /> </a> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/category/rpgs/" rel="category tag">RPGs</a></span> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/04/good-luck-if-you-linked-to-anything-on-g/" rel="bookmark">Good Luck If You Linked To Anything On G+</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-date"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/04/good-luck-if-you-linked-to-anything-on-g/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-02-04T22:02:20-05:00">February 4, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://followmeanddie.com/author/admin/" rel="author">admin</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/04/good-luck-if-you-linked-to-anything-on-g/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I have a BA in history, which means I have training on how to do research and cite my sources.</p> <p>Following along with my training, even RPG blogging, I link back to my sources online.</p> <p>When writing about RPGs, especially “OSR” topics, I found a lot of great ideas, discussion, and all around inspiration on G+.</p> <p>It occurred to me a couple of days ago that I should see how many things I linked to on G+ and try to copy those things and add the source to my blog posts, so the information is not lost to the mists of time.</p> <p>I use an extension on my blog that lets me do a search and replace on things across my entire blog. It has an option to do a “dry run” and for the free version show how many instances of a given phrase it finds before it replaces it.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Great . . . .</h4> <p>I searched for the key part of the URL for G+: <em>plus.google.com</em>.</p> <p>Here are my results for a few of the tables:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Comments – 2</li><li>Links: 4</li><li>Posts: 867!</li></ul> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Comments</h4> <p>The comments are from the same person and link back to his G+ page. I copied the long text in the about page and the graphic to a google doc. That was easy!</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Links</h4> <p>The links are to the <a href="https://plus.google.com/b/107411251706927346819/+Followmeanddie" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Follow Me, And Die! (opens in a new tab)">Follow Me, And Die!</a> G+ page. OK, I can screenshot it or something and provide a nostalgia page or something.</p> <p>The other three are to the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Metamorphosis Alpha (opens in a new tab)" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107411251706927346819/communities/116604194143817399386" target="_blank">Metamorphosis Alpha</a>, the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Swords & Wizardry (opens in a new tab)" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107411251706927346819/communities/105496313464716843665" target="_blank">Swords & Wizardry</a>, and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Tenkar's Landing (opens in a new tab)" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107411251706927346819/communities/108924907625049062401" target="_blank">Tenkar’s Landing</a> G+ community pages. I can use G+ Exporter to grab those and post to a page or site for historical purposes, but that’s a whole other ball of wax.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Posts</h4> <p>The 867 posts are links in 157 actual posts. Counting this post, I now have 780 posts.</p> <p>I can go into the database and search for the unique links and go from there. </p> <p>I’ve got some ideas of how I can hack together a crude solution. I’m not the best script coder, but I plan to do my best to copy what’s on the other end of all these links. But first, just in case, I’m going to grab my favorite G+ discussions that stand out in my mind</p> <p>Unfortunately, trying to preserve this background history of my RPG life during my time on G+ is going to sidetrack me from other things. </p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion</h4> <p>Unlike blogs and websites, there is no archive of all of G+. Google is just going to delete it. It would be really cool if Google and The Internet Archive could work out a deal. </p> <p>If you have a favorite G+ discussion, get it now — if you can find it.</p> <p>[<strong>UPDATE:</strong> I just found that if you use the Evernote web clipper and tell it to use the default option of Article, it will save the entire G+ thread. <strong>NOTE:</strong> It is literal about what is copied. Be sure to unhide all comments with the view x previous comments link, if any.]</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="309" height="581" src="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image.png" alt="" class="wp-image-5820" srcset="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image.png 309w, https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image-160x300.png 160w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" /></figure> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/apps/" rel="tag">Apps</a><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/blogging/" rel="tag">Blogging</a><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/g/" rel="tag">G+</a><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/tag/osr/" rel="tag">OSR</a></span></footer></article> <article id="post-5794" class="post-5794 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-rpgs tag-tools"> <a class="post-thumbnail" href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/02/simpler-tools-just-as-cool/" aria-hidden="true"> <img width="1038" height="576" src="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BlogPostCoolToolsSameResultsxcf-1038x576.png" class="attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image" alt="Cool Tools Same Results" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BlogPostCoolToolsSameResultsxcf-1038x576.png 1038w, https://followmeanddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BlogPostCoolToolsSameResultsxcf-672x372.png 672w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px" /> </a> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/category/rpgs/" rel="category tag">RPGs</a></span> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/02/simpler-tools-just-as-cool/" rel="bookmark">Simpler Tools, Just As Cool</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-date"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/02/simpler-tools-just-as-cool/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-02-02T21:51:02-05:00">February 2, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://followmeanddie.com/author/admin/" rel="author">admin</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/02/simpler-tools-just-as-cool/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>As an RPG content producer, I’ve spent a lot of money on fancy tools, some that require more money when versions are updated, etc. Check out <a href="https://anchor.fm/follow-me-and-die/episodes/Episode-77---Saturday-Sprawl---15---Simpler-Tools--Just-As-Cool-e33jmq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="episode 77 (opens in a new tab)">episode 77</a> of my podcast where I discuss this topic<strong>*</strong>.</p> <p>Several years ago, I was very big into Linux and free and open source software. I’m still a proponent of free and open source software, I just had issues in the past finding Linux based solutions for some of my workflows.</p> <p>I have a pretty powerful Windows 7 Pro desktop that I dual boot Linux <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Kubuntu (opens in a new tab)" href="https://kubuntu.org/" target="_blank">Kubuntu</a>. The same system flies on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Linux (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" target="_blank">Linux</a>. For example, I used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Gimp (opens in a new tab)">Gimp</a> for image editing. Gimp takes forever to load on Windows, yet opens quickly on Linux. On Linux it isn’t lightning fast, but it’s noticeably faster than on Windows. Also my C:\ drive, where Windows and most programs are installed is a solid state drive. Linux is on a partition of my hard drive.</p> <p>I’m looking at going back to my roots in computing. By that I mean more plain text and more reliance on the keyboard rather than the mouse. I started with a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="TI-99 4/A (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A" target="_blank">TI-99 4/A</a> when my Dad bought our first computer. All programming on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="BASIC (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC" target="_blank">BASIC</a> was plain text. When I went to college, I studied computer science for the first three semesters and was in the first freshman class that did NOT have to use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="punch cards (opens in a new tab)">punch cards</a>.</p> <p>Way back in the mid 80’s I used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="WordStar (opens in a new tab)">WordStar</a> a text based word processor with tabs for bold, underline, italics, etc. It was perfect for formatting any kind of paper I had to turn in in college.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="VisiCalc (opens in a new tab)">VisiCalc</a>, the first spreadsheet was a text based interface. I never used it, but saw plenty of people use it.</p> <p>Later, in the mid 90’s I had what may have been the last DOS based version of MS-Word when my Dad got a new PC with Windows 3.0 and gave me his old one. I didn’t like the idea of a mouse back then, and have used one so long now that it’s second nature.</p> <p>However, I’ve been doing some research on the tools I use for producing my content in all it’s forms. I’ve used Linux off and on for 15 years. Most of my work is done on Windows, but there are many programs that I use that are cross platform, like <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Libre Office (opens in a new tab)">Libre Office</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Gimp (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">Gimp</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Inkscape (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape" target="_blank">Inkscape</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Audacity (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)" target="_blank">Audacity</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Discord (opens in a new tab)" href="https://discordapp.com/" target="_blank">Discord</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Chrome (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.google.com/chrome/" target="_blank">Chrome</a>, and more.</p> <p>I draft a lot in a text editor, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.notetab.com/" target="_blank">NoteTab Pro</a>, but it’s fancy GUI programmable text editor with lots of bells and whistles I have used for 20 years and an update for whatever comes after Windows 10 or the ability to work on it, may be lost. I have no way of knowing. There is no single tool that does all that this text editor can do, and I’ll never find it, short of learning to code and build my own text editor. Rather than invest that sort of time, I’m looking at finding tools with the power to do the jobs I need.</p> <p>I’ve used the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="vim (opens in a new tab)">vim</a> text editor off and on over the years, and it has a lot of power built in. It is the default text editor on many Linux distributions. Linux follows the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Unix philosophy (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy" target="_blank">Unix philosophy</a> for programs, do one thing and do it well. The ability to send the output of one program to another allows one with the basic default tools in Linux to make scripts to do all the things you want or need to do. If there is a new computing challenge you need to overcome on Linux, you have a good shot of hacking a chain of scripts together to do what you want.</p> <p>That all leads me to what my last week of research into topics parallel to my production of various RPG related content</p> <p>In the past I’ve looked into moving to Linux to avoid the whole issue with Microsoft. I kept avoiding it because of my addiction to my favorite text editor, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="NoteTab Pro (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.notetab.com/" target="_blank">NoteTab Pro</a>, that I’ve used nearly every day for 20 years. I take notes, draft games ideas, keep lists, campaign notes, adventure prep, and more. I’ve built thousands of little helper scripts that help me do my day job and also help me with personal tasks. I’m even credited in the help file as a beta tester, since I helped beta test so many updates over the years. I was very active on the mailing lists for at least a decade. I even started a mailing list for how to use it on Linux via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Wine (opens in a new tab)">Wine</a>, so I can have it available until I figure out how to replace it.</p> <p>This all started when I started digging in to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Markdown (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" target="_blank">Markdown</a>, the text markup language used to change a text file into web pages, or more impressively, a PDF. The tools to do this are free. Right now, I’m using a $20 program, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Serif Page Plus (opens in a new tab)" href="https://affinity.store/buy/pageplus/" target="_blank">Serif Page Plus</a>, that is not supported, and a very fancy replacement, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Affinity Publisher (opens in a new tab)" href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/" target="_blank">Affinity Publisher</a>, is in beta. I have no idea what it will cost, but it just keeps getting more and more bells and whistles. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Markdown (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" target="_blank">Markdown</a> can’t do all I want to do, but I’m versed in mark up from the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="WordStar (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar" target="_blank">WordStar</a> days back in the mid 80’s, and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="HTML (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" target="_blank">HTML</a> in the late 90’s to present. All you need is a text editor, vim has syntax highlighting for it, so that’s a plus. Vim is also free. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Pandoc (opens in a new tab)">Pandoc</a> the interpreter for converting <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" target="_blank">Markdown</a> to other formats is also free. </p> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" target="_blank">Markdown</a> can’t do two column PDFs, which is what I have been producing so far, in all my PDFs. There are some clunky ways to get it to do that. But it can format tables and handle a lot of things.</p> <p>For even more power, there is <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="LaTeX (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX" target="_blank">LaTeX</a>, which has even more fancy formatting options and can do two column layout. There is even a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="LaTeX (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX" target="_blank">LaTeX</a> plugin called <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/rpg-module?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="RPG module (opens in a new tab)">RPG module</a> that someone designed to format a PDF like an old school module. While the level of formatting in it is not yet fully in my grasp, I am slowly getting there.</p> <p>I found a great very fancy graphical editor, <a href="http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Texmaker (opens in a new tab)">Texmaker</a>, for working with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="LaTeX (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX" target="_blank">LaTeX</a>, and through YouTube, tons of videos by people showing how to do the basics and some more complex things.</p> <p>Then I found a guy on YouTube who’s doing all his stuff on Linux via almost 100% terminal based programs. He even records video and audio with the same camera and microphone I use. All I need is an easy to use video editor, and I can probably move to Linux nearly full time. I have a couple of programs that are Windows only, and Wine does not support them, so some sort of Linux program to take their functionality needs to be located.</p> <p>The internet runs on Linux, Microsoft is even doing things with Linux, and there are rumors it may add Linux to Windows. </p> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>I have an Android phone which is based on linux. </li><li>So I’ve already recorded episodes straight to my phone.</li><li>Linux is based on unix</li><li>Mac OS is based on unix.</li><li>iPhone is also based on unix.</li></ul> <p>My prior efforts to move to Linux had lots of reasons not to. Programs have improved so much in the last several years, that it makes less and less sense for me to stick with Windows. This is especially true of consumers who only use their computers for the internet, email, social media, and office suite products. Linux is faster than Windows and you don’t need all the crap that most big name computer sellers throw on there. Viruses are less of an issue. Unless you have a very niche program that you have to use, there is little reason for most users to stick with Windows. </p> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Computer games tend to be one reason, many would stick with Windows. I’m not a computer gamer, as I lose track of time and I’m not productive if I get lost for hours on end. </p> <p>The other reasons that I will need to dip into Windows for personal projects is for taxes. I haven’t researched lately, but last I checked about 7 or 8 years ago, there was no computer based tax software for Linux. Of course, one can use the online option many tax companies now offer. </p> <p>Another is genealogy programs. I have a Windows based genealogy program called Legacy that has some helpful tools and I have a lot of data clean up to do before going with Linux. There is a great cross platform genealogy program with a Windows port, called <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="LifeLines (opens in a new tab)" href="http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">LifeLines</a>. Current development is <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="here (opens in a new tab)" href="https://github.com/MarcNo/lifelines" target="_blank">here</a>. It has a lot of power and flexibility.</p> <p>Of course, the biggest reason I will keep using Windows every day is that’s what we have to use at work. However, many of the tools I use on Linux, I also can use on Windows. Since they’re free, and I don’t have a locked down laptop, I can install software that helps me get my job done. </p> <p>I’m starting with trying to format the text of my first PDF to get it in to a two column layout and polished tables. The great thing is, I can make separate files for different pieces and call them as I need them. For example, the title page has very little that changes from one PDF to another, and the OGL only changes slightly in the last section where one credits other works and adds their new title. I’ve got lots of notes and ideas for how to improve my workflow. Trying to use a graphical editor to make it look like what I want it just a challenge. I’m going to dust off my general mark up skills and make something that looks better, and I can easily modify the look. I can also easily use the same source document to make web pages, PDF, or any other format I want or need.</p> <p>I also have in mind to use <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="GitHub (opens in a new tab)" href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a> for collaboration on projects. GitHub uses <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Git (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git" target="_blank">Git</a>, which was written by <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Linus Torvalds (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds" target="_blank">Linus Torvalds</a>, the guy who started and still oversees Linux development. I haven’t finalized anything, it is more of a long term project to dig into once I am producing my monthly PDFs totally via plain text with markup tags.</p> <p>The looming demise of G+ and their announcement that all consumer G+ accounts will be deleted after April 2, 2019 has really driven home the point that I need to be more responsible with my data and present it on my blog and sites I control, and use social media to direct others back to my blog. I also know I need to revise the look of my blog, and I have lots of ideas for that.</p> <p>I have 3 games to finish prepping for <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Marmalade Dog (opens in a new tab)" href="https://marmaladedog.org/" target="_blank">Marmalade Dog</a>, here in Kalamazoo, MI in a couple of weeks, and three more games to prep for <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Gary Con (opens in a new tab)" href="https://garycon.com/" target="_blank">Gary Con</a>. You can bet, I will be making those preparations in Linux so I maximize the proficiency of use of my new tools.</p> <p>Above, I mentioned Discord. I have played in regular Roll20 games and used the Linux version of Discord and it works just like the Windows version.</p> <p>Roll20, since it is browser based, works just fine on Linux.</p> <p>If you don’t have any need for a program that is only Windows and it won’t run right via Wine, there is little need to stay on Windows. 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